Nigeria Airways
| Nigeria Airways | |
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| IATA code : | WT |
| ICAO code : | NGA |
| Call sign : | NIGERIA |
| Founding: | October 1, 1958 |
| Operation stopped: | 2004 |
| Seat: |
Lagos , Nigeria
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| Turnstile : | |
| Company form: | Limited |
| Fleet size: | 32 (1984) |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Nigeria Airways ceased operations in 2004. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Nigeria Airways was a national airline of the African Republic of Nigeria founded on October 1, 1958 , which ceased operations in 2004. In July 2018, Nigeria Air was presented as its successor, although the plans for this were discontinued in September 2018.
history
Nigeria Airways was one of the oldest airlines on the African continent. Older airlines are Egypt Air (1932) and Tunisair (1948). Nigeria Airways (still called WAAC Nigeria until 1971 ) emerged from the West African Airways Corporation (WAAC) founded in 1946 , which had built up a route network in the former British colonies in West Africa.
In 1961 the airline was nationalized and from 1963 Fokker F-27-200s were put into service. In September 1969, the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) took over a long-haul aircraft of the type Vickers VC10 (Type 1101), which on November 20, 1969 when approaching Lagos due to insufficient flight altitude, grazed several trees and fell, killing all 87 occupants Life came.
In May 1971 the first Boeing 707 and from 1974 the Fokker F28 for domestic flights were put into service. On October 14, 1976, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 was deployed .
On June 5, 1984, the airline hit the headlines when the Nigerian secret service tried to kidnap Umaru Dikko in London, which also involved Group Captain Bernard Bamfa, who was appointed head of Nigeria Airways by the Military Council.
From 1988 the company got into financial difficulties for the first time and the route network had to be downsized. One reason for this was the lifting of the monopoly for the domestic market and thus the approval of further airlines for domestic flights. In 1997 the British Civil Aviation Authority prohibited the use of British airspace for security reasons. Nigeria then banned all British Airways flights into its territory.
In 1998 two Airbus A310-200s , one Boeing 707-320C, six Boeing 737-200s and one McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 were used. In 2000 the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank advised the Nigerian state on the privatization of the national airline.
Nigeria Airways was hopelessly over-indebted in 2003 and was liquidated . In October 2004, police forcibly cleared the defunct airline's building that employees were occupying in order to obtain payment of outstanding wages and pensions. The former employees later also asked the successor organization Virgin Nigeria Airways to settle outstanding wages and pension payments.
Destinations
Domestic airports served were Lagos , Ibadan , Benin City , Port Harcourt , Enugu , Calabar , Kaduna , Kano , Jos , Sokoto , Maiduguri and Yola .
Numerous cities were served internationally , including Frankfurt , Banjul and Cotonou .
fleet
Nigeria Airways and its predecessor, West African Airways (WAAC), used the following types of aircraft:
- Airbus A310
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 720
- Boeing 727
- Boeing 737-200
- Boeing 737-400
- Boeing 747
- Boeing 767
- Bristol 170
- De Havilland DH.104 Dove
- De Havilland DH.114 Heron
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-8
- Fokker F-27
- Fokker F28
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10
- Vickers Viscount
- Vickers VC10
Incidents
- On November 20, 1969, a Vickers VC10 ( aircraft registration number 5N-ABD ) brushed several trees when approaching about 13 kilometers from Lagos airport due to its low altitude and fell, killing all 87 occupants.
- On January 22, 1973, a Boeing 707-3D3C of the Jordanian Alia (JY-ADO) , operated for Nigeria Airways, had an accident on its way back from Mecca , Saudi Arabia . The crew of the planned flight to Lagos had evaded due to weather reasons and made a very hard landing at Kano Airport , Nigeria . The evacuation started very late. Of the 202 inmates, 170 pilgrims and 6 crew members died, 26 people survived (see also the flight accident at Kano in 1973 ) .
- On March 1, 1978, a Fokker F28-1000 of Nigeria Airways (5N-ANA) collided in the air while approaching Kano with a MiG-21U fighter aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force . All five crew members, 11 passengers and the two pilots of the fighter jet died.
- On November 28, 1983, a Fokker F28-2000 of Nigeria Airways (5N-ANF) was flown into the area on a domestic flight from Lagos to Enugu three kilometers from the runway in fog and caught fire. The area in front of the airport was flat, the pilots had initially flown over it at a height of 90 meters, but then allowed the aircraft to sink further in its landing configuration. On contact with the ground, the landing gear was torn off, the machine slid its fuselage over the terrain and the wings broke off, whereupon a fire broke out. Two of the six crew members and 51 of the 66 passengers were killed in the accident.
- On January 10, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (5N-ANR) rolled over the runway end in Ilorin during a training flight and burned out.
- On July 11, 1991, a Douglas DC-8 , which had been leased from Nationair Canada , crashed in Jeddah . All 261 people on board were killed. It is the accident with the most losses for both airlines and Nigerian aviation, the most casualty incident involving this type of aircraft and the second worst accident in Saudi Arabia. The cause of the accident was a punctured tire on the main landing gear due to poor maintenance, which triggered a fire on board. Despite a return to the departure airport, the aircraft could no longer land safely and crashed shortly before the runway when attempting to extend the main landing gear (see also Nigeria Airways flight 2120 ) .
- On December 19, 1994, a Boeing 707-3F9C (5N-ABK) crashed into a swamp near Kiri Kasana on a cargo flight operated by Nigeria Airways from Jeddah to Kano . During the flight there was strong smoke and odor in the area of a cargo pallet. After a fire warning and smoke penetrated the cockpit, the aircraft crashed 40 minutes before the planned landing. Three of the five people on board were killed. It could be determined that the aircraft was carrying highly flammable dangerous goods (see also Nigeria Airways flight 9805 ) .
- On November 13, 1995, a Boeing 737-200 (5N-AUA) hit the runway very late after an extremely unstable approach in Kaduna , Nigeria . When overshot the runway, the machine broke apart and caught fire. Of 138 people on board, 11 died (see also Nigeria Airways flight 357 ) .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nigerian gov't unveils new national carrier, Nigeria Air. Ch-aviation , July 18, 2018.
- ↑ Nigeria stops plans for new national airline. AeroTelegraph, September 20, 2018.
- ↑ Bureau of Public Enterprises Nigeria Airways Limited ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 74 kB); Aviation Unit Status Report ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1966–2004.
- ^ Accident report VC10 5N-ABD , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 3, 2019.
- ^ Accident report B-707 JY-ADO , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 4, 2018.
- ↑ Accident report F28-1000 5N-ANA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 2, 2019.
- ^ Accident report F28-1000 5N-ANF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 2, 2019.
- ^ Accident report DC-10 5N-ANR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 3, 2019.
- ^ Accident report B-707 5N-ABK , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 3, 2019.
- ↑ Accident report B-737-200 5N-AUA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 3, 2019.
